Things just aren’t the way they used to be.   This is a truth.  We are in a world filled with constant change.  Oh this is serious…. like garbage disposal serious.

The fact that things change can be good… or bad.  It all depends, doesn’t it?

Do you ever say to yourself…. “This shouldn’t be so dang hard?”….. when you are trying to get something accomplished?

Point in case.  Our freezer went out.  Two weeks ago.  I have been trying to get a new refrigerator/freezer in its stead.    I am no closer today then I was two weeks ago.  Operator error?  I guess it could be.  But gall dang it.    It just shouldn’t be THIS HARD.

What every happened to the day when the Maytag guy would just come to your door and fix it?  With his gimpy little grin, his funny little hat… his bowl-of-jelly-belly.  Kind of like Santa Claus… with a wrench.  The Maytag guy is extinct.  Like a Dinosaur.

Now growing up, we never had to call the Maytag guy…. NO Sirrrreeeee.

That is because we had EVERYTHING Frigidaire.  And back in the day… Frigidaire was KING.  That’s where my Dad worked after all.  He was a Design Engineer.  He had lots of Patents.  When I was a kid… I thought this meant that he wore Girly Shoes when he went to work.  Like Shirley Temple Patent Leathers.

Ah. But I digress.

I long for the days….. when you went to buy something, or  attempted to get some kind of service, and it actually happened.   But these times are no more.   In the world of digital mania, and major technological advances, it appears that we have run ourselves right out of the pan… and into the fire.

I miss our freezer.  And the days when Frigidaire… really meant… frigid air.  Now we are at Subzero.  Literally.

Maytag Man.  From the Ice Age.  Oh for the good old days.

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”  –   Aristotle

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”  –   Henry Ford